Eric Holder, 63, the U.S. attorney general, was briefly hospitalized as a precaution after he felt faint and short of breath and was resting at home after his release, the Justice Department said.
Gov. Jerry Brown, 75, the Democrat who already is the longest-serving governor in California history, said he would run for an unprecedented fourth term.
Mayor Martin Walsh of Boston is threatening to boycott his city’s St. Patrick’s Day parade unless organizers allow gay military veterans to march, joining New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has vowed not to march in a Manhattan parade because of its policies against homosexuals.
John Hinckley, 58, who shot and wounded President Ronald Reagan in 1981, soon will be spending more than half of his time outside a Washington, D.C., mental hospital after a judge laid out the guidelines for 17-day monthly visits for Hinckley to his mother’s home in Virginia.
Ricardo Meadows, 35, of Cincinnati is expected to survive after being shot 14 times in the arms, legs and body in an attack that preceded the arrest of Antonio Weathington, 32, who is charged with assault.
Julian Christopher Flores, 19, a Los Angeles roller-rink employee, is charged with one count of false imprisonment and one count of attempted lewd act on a child after police say he admitted indulging a self-described “foot fetish” with up to 200 young boys.
Sgt. Garth Smith of the University of Utah campus police said four students were caught smoking marijuana Jan. 31 in a well-camouflaged igloo in a wooded area, with the 5-foot-tall structure later destroyed with a sledgehammer.
Brian Schweitzer, the ex-Montana governor rumored as a Democratic presidential hopeful, has joined cable news channel MSNBC as a contributor.
Christian Wulff, 54, a former German president once touted as a potential chancellor, was acquitted of corruption charges from his time as a regional governor, handing him the exoneration he had sought since stepping down from the presidency in 2012.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, a Tea Party favorite and potential 2016 presidential candidate, declined to say how he plans to vote in the Republican primary between fellow Texan John Cornyn, the Senate’s second-ranking Republican leader, and the Tea Party-backed Rep. Steve Stockman.
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